Julie, my guess is that the fixture shorted, which took out the dimmer. The
short could have completely severed the wires going to the two lamps that
don't work. If there are three lamps on the fixture, somewhere the wires
will come together at a splice. Find it and I think you will see the burned
off wires
"Julie" wrote in message
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I have a lamp I am trying to fix.

It's a 3-pendant floor lamp, and it came with a slider (dimmer) box
between the plug and the light. I heard a "pop" the other day, and
the lights went out. Today I opened up the box, and there was a
circuit board inside. On the board is a slider/resister, a few other
componenets, and (I think) a transformer attached to a heat sink.

The pendants take 120V bulbs, so I expected I could take out the
dimmer board - cap the wires together (2 #14s), and revert to a normal
lamp. So I did that, and ...

only one of the three pendants lights up. Eh?

Trying to remember assembling the lamp - I'm pretty sure it was wired
straight through - ie, no switches or junctions inside the fixture, at
least that were accessible to me.

Any ideas?

JSH